Oliver Ford Davies

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Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor and writer best known for his role as Sio Bibble in Star Wars Episodes I to III.

He is also known for his role as Cressen in HBO's Game of Thrones.

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Early life and academic career

Davies was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England. He attended the King's School in Canterbury, Canterbury. Questors, a reputable Ealing amateur group, formed him in 1956. He received a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He began studying for his DPhil and taught history at the University of Edinburgh before beginning to perform professionally in 1967.

Acting career

He appeared in his first Stratford performance in Bartholomew Fair's open-air performance in 1959 as a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club. In the 1967 season of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, his first professional appearances were at the age of 27. The Mermaid Theatre, London, the Oxford Playhouse, and the Cambridge Arts Theatre followed, with short seasons. His long and fruitful relationship with the Royal Shakespeare Company began in 1975, when director Terry Hands cast him as Mountjoy in Henry V. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the company. He appeared more often at the National Theatre in London from 1990 to 1980, before he lent his "sublime presence" to the part of the appraising button moulder in Henryk Ibsen's Peter Gynt at the Olivier Theatre.

Davies appeared on television as Peter Foxcott QC in Kavanagh, Q., and Le Bas, the schoolmaster, was a member of A Dance to the Music of Time (1997). In a 2002 episode of Foyle's War, he appeared alongside John Thaw in an episode of Inspector Morse and also appeared in the ITV television drama The Uninvited.

His most notable role on film was, of course, Sio Bibble in the Star Wars prequel trilogy films, which were released in 1999, 2002, and 2005. Davies appeared in the film Johnny English, in which he portrayed the Archbishop of Canterbury.

He appeared on stage in Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as Polonius, alongside David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, and as the King of France in 2009. In 2010, he appeared as Balfour in Ben Brown's The Promise, the Balfour Declaration.

He appeared in a stage version of Michelle Magorian's book Goodnight Mister Tom in which he played Thomas Oakley, the central character. Justice Shallow was back with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014 as Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part 2. In Richard II, Davies appeared alongside David Tennant once more. Davies discussed his time in the BBC Radio Three series Private Passions in February 2019.

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